And helps people feel empowered to try to start their own company.

You don't need universal or publicly funded healthcare for this.

You just need it to become the norm for employers not to provide healthcare insurance.

So for example (and I am NOT saying we should actually do this) if they would simply pass a law forbidding employers from including health coverage as part of their compensation packages, then everyone would be buying their own insurance (on exchanges or wherever) and startups along with every other business would be relieved of the burden.

It would also help most big companies with spiraling health care costs, as well as lower paying jobs that can’t afford to provide benefits anyways.

This is not certain. There is evidence that the safer people feel, the less willing they are to take risks. This is only paradoxical at first glance.